Time Machine and multiple external drives. Will this work?

[amberashby]

Hi All,

I'm preparing for Leopard. Does anyone know if Time Machine will work using multiple external hard drives? I will need lots of backup space and it is much cheaper for me to buy 2 500GB external drives than it is to buy 1 1TB drive.

Will Time Machine use 2 external drives for backup?

Thanks.

 

[Nugget]

Time machine can only be configured to use a single volume. You'd have to stripe those two drives together using RAID0 in order to use them both for Time Machine.

 

[Cromulent]

Hi All,

I'm preparing for Leopard. Does anyone know if Time Machine will work using multiple external hard drives? I will need lots of backup space and it is much cheaper for me to buy 2 500GB external drives than it is to buy 1 1TB drive.

Will Time Machine use 2 external drives for backup?

Thanks.

You'll have to wait I think.

If it does not work you could always put the drives in a software RAID 0 array which would make them appear as one drive (although you do double the risk of data loss by using RAID 0).